Legends of Bathurst - Round 6: Sandown Raceway (Feb 28th)

This series the top 3 places will be rewarded a weight penalty at the end of each Race.

I decided not to go with the Sandown 1968 version, due to a few glitches with the track.
Also some of the Hey bales are like concrete & where they are on the track, it is easy to get tapped from another car and get pushed into them, which results in a broken car.

So we will be racing on the newer version, which we will definitely get more cars finishing the race.

Will do the same thing with Bathurst as well.

Bugger, I love the old Sandown, particularly the shot through the Causeway and under the Dunlop Bridge. The current circuit is mickey mouse.

Might suit my Escort a bit more though so I'll stop complaining.

Chris Donnelly wrote:Bugger, I love the old Sandown, particularly the shot through the Causeway and under the Dunlop Bridge.  The current circuit is mickey mouse.

Might suit my Escort a bit more though so I'll stop complaining.  

That's where you write your car off under that bridge if your get it wrong 

If it was a 3 race, I would have stuck with the 68 version, but because its a long race, I think there would have been allot of DNF's, which is never fun LOL

The turns in the newer version are allot sharper, also turn 2 & 3 doesn't exist on the 68 version, so yeah it will help the smaller cars. They will need all the help they can get at Sandown !

Had a run in the Escort, got its time down to a 1:25.360 with the new gearbox, which around Sandown is pretty good I think.

The Escort should do well at Calder & Mallala,
Also with the new gear set in it now, it should pull better going up the mountain at Bathurst !

yeah the super close ratio box in the escort brought it alive. should be cool to see the escorts fighting a bit more in the hands of CD and patto

On a week that I actually practiced ... someone's stuck chicanes in the track mid week ... :-(

But understand why.

vandem wrote:On a week that I actually practiced ... someone's stuck chicanes in the track mid week ... :-(

But understand why.

Doesn't matter if there's chicanes or not when your (mine) engine blows 

That was my best race so far, I had a really nice rhythm going. I think if Worm ran the same strategy as me he would have beat me though.

The old Charger really struggled for pace around here, especially race pace.
But I knew I could make it with one stop, so I was still in with a good chance for a great result.

Made a couple of silly mistakes in the first 10 laps, but was still in good shape.
Had some dices with Stevo, Dave, SMT27 only the way.
So lap 20 came up & was starting to plan my pit stop for a little over half way through the race, but on lap 24 BANG !!
The engine gave up on me 

My fault, I should have been lifting off the throttle on the upshifts.


A big congrads to DV_8 !! Well Done !!
Clearly the stand out drive of the night, by being so consistent thoughout the race.

DV_8 wrote:That was my best race so far, I had a really nice rhythm going. I think if Worm ran the same strategy as me he would have beat me though.

Don't under rate yourself DV_8 !
You were the best on the night & that's all that counts 

Weight from the penalties will be added for Qualify & race 1 of the next round.
The weight stays until you loose it.
Also the grid spot penalties apply to race 1 of the next round.

Fair call. I know I was a bit greedy on the inside kerb on the entry to the second last corner Turn 11. As well as the exit of Turn 1 on occasions.